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<!DOCTYPE html> <!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]> <!--> <html lang="en" class="no-js page-interactive section-design page-theme-standard template-minimal tone-feature page-interactive-default limit-small layout-xlarge app-interactive" itemid="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/15/arts/design/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture.html" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle" itemscope="" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/"> <head> <title>The National Museum of African American History and Culture - The New York Times</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=edge,chrome=1"> <meta name="viewport" value="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://static01.nyt.com/favicon.ico"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144×144" href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/icons/ios-ipad-144x144.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114×114" href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/icons/ios-iphone-114x144.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/icons/ios-default-homescreen-57x57.png"> <meta name="sourceApp" value="nyt-v5"> <meta id="applicationName" name="applicationName" value="interactive"> <meta id="foundation-build-id" name="foundation-build-id" value=""> <meta name="robots" value="noarchive"> <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/15/arts/design/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture.html"> <meta name="hdl" value="The National Museum of African American History and Culture"> <meta name="slug" value="national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture"> <meta name="channels" value=""> <meta itemprop="description" name="description" value="A curated walk through the hallways of the newest Smithsonian museum before it opens next week. 13 years in the making, it attempts to depict the pain and pride of the black experience in America."> <meta itemprop="identifier" name="articleid" value="100000004648004"> <meta itemprop="inLanguage" value="en-US"> <meta value="https://static01.nyt.com/services/json/sectionfronts/n//index.jsonp" name="article:collection"> <meta itemprop="articleSection" value="Art & Design" name="article:section"> <meta name="PT" value="Multimedia"> <meta name="PST" value="Interactive"> <meta name="CG" value="arts"> <meta name="SCG" value="design"> <meta name="tom" value="interactive_feature"> <meta name="pdate" value="20160915"> <meta name="utime" value="20160916150936"> <meta name="ptime" value="20160915171729"> <meta name="DISPLAYDATE" value="Sept. 15, 2016"> <meta name="dat" value="Sept. 15, 2016"> <meta name="lp" value="A curated walk through the hallways of the newest Smithsonian museum before it opens next week. 13 years in the making, it attempts to depict the pain and pride of the black experience in America."> <meta name="byl" value="By"> <meta value="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/15/arts/design/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture.html" name="og:url"> <meta value="article" name="og:type"> <meta value="The National Museum of African American History and Culture" name="og:title"> <meta value="A curated walk through the hallways of the newest Smithsonian museum before it opens next week. 13 years in the making, it attempts to depict the pain and pride of the black experience in America." name="og:description"> <meta value="9869919170" name="fb:app_id"> <meta name="twitter:site" value="@nytimes"> <meta value="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/15/arts/design/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture.html" name="twitter:url"> <meta value="The National Museum of African American History and Culture" name="twitter:title"> <meta value="A curated walk through the hallways of the newest Smithsonian museum before it opens next week. 13 years in the making, it attempts to depict the pain and pride of the black experience in America." name="twitter:description"> <meta name="author" value=""> <meta name="col" id="column-name" value="">
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theme-minimal "> <header class="story-header interactive-header"> <div class="story-meta"> <h1 class="story-heading interactive-headline" itemprop="headline">The National Museum of African American History and Culture</h1> <div class="story-meta-footer interactive-meta-footer"> <div class="interactive-byline"> <p class="byline-dateline"><span class="byline last-byline" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <span class="byline-author" data-byline-name="By" itemprop="name">By</span></span> <time class="dateline" datetime="2016-09-15" itemprop="dateModified" content="2016-09-15">SEPT. 15, 2016</time> </p> </div> <p class="interactive-leadin summary"> </p> </div> </div> </header> <div id="national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture" class="interactive-graphic"> <div id="g-graphic" class="g-graphic" data-preview-slug="2016-08-26-museum-afam"> <div id="g-header" class="g-header"> <div id="g-header-art" class="g-header-art"></div> <div class="g-header-meta"> <p class="g-kicker">The National Museum of African American History and Culture</p> <h1 class="g-headline">I, Too, Sing America</h1> <p class="g-byline">By The New York Times</p> </div> </div> <div class="g-story-meta"> <p class="g-story-producer">Produced by Alicia DeSantis and Josh Williams, Photographs by Lexey Swall, Written by Graham Bowley, Interviews by Tamara Best, Graphics by Anjali Singhvi, Video by Jonah M. Kessel</p> <p class="g-story-date">Sept. 15, 2016</p> </div> <div id="g-blocks" class="g-blocks"> <div id="g-block-1" class="g-block g-block-type-text g-block-width-large "> <div class="g-text"> <p class="g-p"><span class="g-drop">T</span> <span class="g-upper">he Smithsonian’s</span> National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on Sept. 24 in Washington after a long journey. Thirteen years since Congress and President George W. Bush authorized its construction, the 400,000-square-foot building stands on a five-acre site on the National Mall, close to the Washington Monument. President Obama will speak at its opening dedication.</p> <p class="g-p">Appropriately for a public museum at the heart of Washington’s cultural landscape, the museum’s creators did not want to build a space for a black audience alone, but for all Americans. In the spirit of <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47558">Langston Hughes’s poem “I, Too,”</a> their message is a powerful declaration: The African-American story is an American story, as central to the country’s narrative as any other, and understanding black history and culture is essential to understanding American history and culture.</p> </div> </div> <div id="g-block-2" class="g-block g-block-type-media g-block-width-large "> <div class="g-assets-container"> <div class="g-assets g-assets-count-2"> <div class="g-asset g-image"> <img class="g-lazy" src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/26/museum-afam/assets/images/detail_klanhood-{{size}}_x2.jpg" data-pattern="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/26/museum-afam/assets/images/detail_klanhood-{{size}}.jpg" data-pattern-retina="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/26/museum-afam/assets/images/detail_klanhood-{{size}}_x2.jpg" data-ratio="1.5" data-widths="[320,640,900,1254,2000,2600]"> </div> <div class="g-asset g-image"> <img class="g-lazy" src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/26/museum-afam/assets/images/detail_minstrel3-{{size}}_x2.jpg" data-pattern="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/26/museum-afam/assets/images/detail_minstrel3-{{size}}.jpg" data-pattern-retina="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/26/museum-afam/assets/images/detail_minstrel3-{{size}}_x2.jpg" data-ratio="1.5" data-widths="[320,640,900,1254,2000,2600]"> </div> </div> <p class="g-caption"><span>Powerful objects</span> The collection includes potent artifacts, including a Ku Klux Klan hood and stereotypical representations of black Americans.</p> </div> </div> <div id="g-block-3" class="g
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